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With less than five weeks before the online exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act open for enrollment, insurers are using tools pioneered by political campaigns to identify potential customers and analyze their needs.
Consumer columnist answers questions about marketplace operations.
More than 2 million kids in the US are born with multiple chronic illnesses that often require frequent trips to the hospital, and the number of medically complex kids is growing about 6 percent a year. Medicaid usually steps in to help pay, but that can create logistical problems for families.
Retailers, restaurant chains and others find they can continue to offer such coverage and avoid the health law's heftiest fines.
But how can a law praised for expanding coverage -- one that includes an "employer mandate" to offer "minimum essential coverage" -- allow companies to offer insurance that might not even cover hospitalization?
Letters to the Editor is a periodic KHN feature that details readers responses to recent KHN stories.
In the 16 states and the District of Columbia that have opted to run their own online health insurance marketplaces, catchy jingles, ad campaigns and cartoon characters are among the tools being used to make sure residents know the exchanges will be open for business Oct. 1.
Partly blaming the health law, United Parcel Service is set to remove thousands of spouses from its medical plan because they are eligible for coverage elsewhere.
Some pediatricians, upset about the pricing for their patients and the lack of easy access to what the hospitals charge, are doing the procedures in their offices instead.
But a growing number of workers, especially those employed by small businesses, feel the pinch of deductibles of at least $1,000.
The administration of Gov. Jay Nixon, a Democrat, has walked a political tightrope as the state gets ready for a federal initiative that the Republican-led Legislature strongly opposes and state voters have weighed in against - twice.
The SHOP exchanges are intended to make it easier for small businesses to offer their employees a variety of good plans, but that option is being delayed for a year in 33 states.
More than 100 organizations receive money to help consumers sign up for coverage in online marketplaces in 34 states.
A Minnesota hospital's care for congestive heart failure patients set the stage for it to become an Accountable Care Organization under the health law.
A novel medical discount plan negotiates lower prices at the doctor's office or hospitals for members who aren't insured.
Critics say the rejection of individual plans from five companies that applied to sell inside the insurance marketplace will limit consumer choices and hurt continuity of care.
Some categories of essential benefits under the health law, like maternity care and preventive care, are straightforward. But "habilitative services" -- including treatments like physical and speech therapy -- are much more subjective.
Gov. "Butch" Otter and employer groups fought to keep control of their health insurance marketplace -- the only GOP-controlled state to run a state-based exchange -
Companies are amping up their social media presence in an effort to help patients and do quick damage control on complaints aired in this public sphere.
Connecticut Department of Social Services' Dawn Lambert discusses the state's efforts to address residents' long-term care needs while minimizing the strain on the state's Medicaid budget.
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